This blog is about the Law of Unintended Consequences.
It will report on occurrences of the Law of Unintended Consequence and also of Murphy's Law and other inconsequential matters.
I hope that my readers will add their stories that illustrate these, and similar, laws.
One of the most clear examples of this law in operation is "How the war in Iraq strengthened America's enemies" - Peter W Galbraith.

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Thursday, December 20, 2018

UK Universal Credit Payments - December 2018

The UK government changed the system so that recipients of social benefits would get their benefits consolidated into theri Universal Credit payments. Unfortunately, many of these people are not able to apply economic judgement to their spending and often spent these benefits on 'unnecessary' items rather than clothing, food, housing as intended.